Oberröblingen – Allstedt railway line
| Oberröblingen – Allstedt | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number : | 6723 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 654 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 7.42 km | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The Oberröblingen – Allstedt railway was a single-track, non-electrified branch line in the former Sangerhausen district in Saxony-Anhalt .
history
As early as the 1840s a railway connection was planned between Halle and Nordhausen , which should lead via Querfurt , Allstedt , Artern and Kelbra . However, this project was not implemented and so it was more than 50 years before Allstedt received a rail connection.
When the second section of the Sangerhausen – Erfurt line was opened in 1881 , there was a realistic chance that Allstedt would be connected to the railway network in the foreseeable future. Initially, however, only one horse mail ran three times a day between Allstedt and Oberröblingen. After a copper slate shaft was sunk near Niederröblingen in the 1890s , there was an urgent need for a railway. After two years of planning, construction of the Oberröblingen – Allstedt line began in November 1893. The railway branched off from the Sangerhausen-Erfurt line at Oberröblingen station and ran from there via Niederröblingen to Allstedt. After only eleven months of construction, the 7.42 km long line was opened on October 1, 1894.
Traffic developed quite positively, even if it was mainly limited to sugar beet seasonally. With the closure of the potash shaft in the 1920s, traffic decreased.
Passenger traffic ended on this route on September 1, 1973, freight traffic was officially ceased on December 31, 1994. The track was dismantled around 1999. In the Oberröblingen station area, there is only a short piece of track left of the former railway line, which ends at a buffer stop at the level of the former platform. The route is then built over with a residential area. On the section between the B 86 in Oberröblingen to the entrance to Allstedt, a cycle path was created, which is briefly interrupted by the former railway station in Niederröblingen with its connection to the former copper mine "Bernhard Koenen I".
literature
- Günther Fromm, Michael U. Kratzsch-Leichsenring: The Sömmerda railway junction and its routes . Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza 1999, ISBN 3-932554-59-0
